ACEsConnection member Jim Sporleder is featured in this article. "Recently our friend, Jim Sporleder, principal of Lincoln Alternative School in Walla Walla, gave a seminar for staff from several local communities in which we are working. He told his...
"A University of British Columbia and Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics (CMMT) study has revealed that childhood poverty, stress as an adult, and demographics such as age, sex and ethnicity, all leave an imprint on a person's genes. And,...
"ACE stands for Adverse Childhood Experience and you are going to hear much more about it over the coming years. Whilst there has been surprisingly little work on ACE so far in in the UK, the US Centre for Disease Control (CDC) and Kaiser Permanente...
"This small sampling of comments represents what justice system-involved girls, their parents, and staff, respectively, shared during listening sessions held nationwide by the National Girls Institute (NGI).... A report detailing the results and...
"In recent years, translational research involving humans and animals has uncovered biological and physiological pathways that explain associations between early adverse circumstances and long-term mental and physical health outcomes. In this article,...
ACEsConnection members Laura Smith and Laura Porter are featured in this article. "This year, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) were the focus of the event. The Network aspired, not only to create an awareness of the ACEs research and findings, but...
"We hope that this report will be an additional resource to support community programs for at-risk youth. The successful programs identified in this report are county-developed and county-approved. Each program in the report has been successful even...
"In 2005, the Monroe County Office of Mental Health (MCOMH) was awarded a six year System of Care (SOC) grant through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to transform children’s mental health services. SOC is...
"This week the Safe Start Center launched a new tool to help practitioners on the community level provide effective programs to help children exposed to violence. The Children Exposed to Violence Evidence-Based Programs Database is a collaborative...
"I first came to ANDRUS as a direct-care worker in October of 2010. Andrus had already fully implemented the Sanctuary Model, and I was introduced to it very quickly at my new employee orientation. I was thrust right into the toolkit, with constant...
"Clearly, always, there are a great many guys who relate to the destructive atmosphere of their childhood when the mission preachers get into these sorts of topics, which can include the preachers talking about being absent and selfish fathers while...
"Lately, due to the problems we as a town need to address in light of teen behavior, MAPP’s ideas stand all the more relevant. The goal is to make us all aware of adverse childhood experiences so that we can, through awareness, stop the behavior...
ACEsConnection members Dr. Robert Anda, Dr. Joel Fein, and Emily Wilson MPH are on the ACE Task Force. "For over two decades, ISF has developed, piloted, and disseminated successful programs that address child abuse and family violence. ISF is a...
Reporting on Health has reprinted one of the most original and important stories I've read in a while. Written by the veteran science reporter Jane Stevens , it details the central role of childhood trauma in such things as chronic disease, mental...
"Children with autism have difficulty identifying inappropriate social behavior, and even when successful, they are often unable to justify why the behavior seemed inappropriate. New brain imaging studies show that children with autism may recognize...